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Spotted a guy doing 1/8 reps of 205 on the BP, he came across the gym to get me to spot him... At one point he said 1 more and I wanted to say you have not done 1 yet.

Whats the general thought on asking people why they dont do full reps? Just let them be bros or try and help... I assume he is one of those guys that brags about what he can do but in reality its unlikely he could do 135 full reps

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01-31-2011 , 05:54 PM

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Levarkin

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Originally Posted by Soulman

Have them take before and after pics ldo

Well, she's damn nearly off of it now that she's realized how big this thing is. I told her I could get her on a curl routine, maybe have her using the shakeweight in a month or so. But I fear she may not follow through, shockingly enough.

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01-31-2011 , 06:08 PM

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Soulman

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Originally Posted by GambleGamble

Spot them, but don't bro assist them? Kinda douchey to interview the guy before you spot. Norwegians are too shy to ask randoms for a spot, so I've only been asked once.

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01-31-2011 , 06:32 PM

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Rich Muny

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Originally Posted by Evoken

holy shitballs, nice. How old is the captain now anyway?

Here's a good article: http://www.criticalbench.com/Kirk-Karwoski.htm

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01-31-2011 , 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by GambleGamble

just do what he wants you to do and leave it at that. if you asked him for a spot would you want him to tell you how to lift?

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01-31-2011 , 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by willie24

just do what he wants you to do and leave it at that. if you asked him for a spot would you want him to tell you how to lift?

Yeah, pretty much this.

I guess you could try to nicely advise that he'll progress faster if he "mixes in" sets with less weight/more ROM.

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01-31-2011 , 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Soulman

Spot them, but don't bro assist them? Kinda douchey to interview the guy before you spot. Norwegians are too shy to ask randoms for a spot, so I've only been asked once.

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Originally Posted by willie24

just do what he wants you to do and leave it at that. if you asked him for a spot would you want him to tell you how to lift?

I basically gave him a lift off and got out of the way same as I would ask from a spotter....

...I would never tell someone how to lift, i just am always curious of their response if I asked how come they don't do full ROM. They can do whatever they like for all I care.

He wasnt a bro just some skinny normalish looking dude who no one has ever helped ever etc. If anything I felt like saying check out SS the book/site and if he ignored me oh well but if he did I feel like I would have done my good deed for the day

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01-31-2011 , 08:22 PM

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Finally saw an old guy loading up the leg press ALL THE WAY today. He literally had 8-10 plates on each side. I wasn't sure if I should say something or not, but fortunately he decided against suicide by leg press.

You misunderstood. His exercise was just loading the leg press. That's 16-20 reps he just did!

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01-31-2011 , 09:05 PM

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Bros gunna bro

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01-31-2011 , 09:41 PM

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Saw a guy deadlifting with a 35 and a 25 on one side and a 45 and a 25 on the other. He did a ******** of reps, too, it wasn't he caught his mistake or something, that was totally his workset. I don't get it.

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02-01-2011 , 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by TheEngineer

Here's a good article: http://www.criticalbench.com/Kirk-Karwoski.htm

They start calling him Kirk Kawasaki halfway through that. I don't know if that's his nickname or what, pretty funny if it's not.

"At age 38, Kawasaki's lifting and display of strength was truly monumental.

Captain Kirk Kawasaki is.."

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02-01-2011 , 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by GooseHinson

looooooooooool

not a nickname afaik, had to be the spell checker.

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02-01-2011 , 06:13 PM

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not really a GGO but this hilarious video of a kid attempting to do 3 pullups was posted on bb.com today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ILg...layer_embedded

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02-01-2011 , 06:29 PM

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the counting of the 1st rep is the best part.

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02-01-2011 , 06:34 PM

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that cant be for real

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02-01-2011 , 06:39 PM

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Dudd

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That's a pretty awesome troll for a kid

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02-01-2011 , 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Fear Itself

not really a GGO but this hilarious video of a kid attempting to do 3 pullups was posted on bb.com today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ILg...layer_embedded

That is fracking awesome.

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02-01-2011 , 06:45 PM

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N 82 50 24

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I think it's real. At least the part about the steps helping to accelerate muscle growth.

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02-01-2011 , 07:02 PM

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Very good trollage.

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02-01-2011 , 07:19 PM

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The best trolls are the ones who produce ambiguous content. You never know if it's real or not. A mixed strategy, so to speak.

And speaking of, Lyle already pwned me on Facebook. Christ.

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02-01-2011 , 07:30 PM

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post your fb interaction...

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02-01-2011 , 07:32 PM

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Posted without comment. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why I posted this. (h/t: [Thremp's name redacted])

(article about some idiot here, not that important to talk about it)

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Originally Posted by lylemcd

My attempt at your lame exercise returns this result: who gives a flying **** about this guy or you for posting it?

Not me, that's who.

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02-01-2011 , 08:53 PM

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Evoken

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Counter troll in like a month when he's forgotten about it imo.

pullup kid was an obvious troll, the part where he "curls" with the sunglasses gave it away lol.

thremp is still alive?! i thought for sure communist sklansky went to his house and forced him into a goulag where he labored for a few hours then lost the will to live.

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02-01-2011 , 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Fear Itself

not really a GGO but this hilarious video of a kid attempting to do 3 pullups was posted on bb.com today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ILg...layer_embedded

I had to turn that off before I roflol'd at work...

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Originally Posted by kyleb

The best trolls are the ones who produce ambiguous content. You never know if it's real or not. A mixed strategy, so to speak.

And speaking of, Lyle already pwned me on Facebook. Christ.

lulz

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02-02-2011 , 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by GambleGamble

Whats the general thought on asking people why they dont do full reps? Just let them be bros or try and help... I assume he is one of those guys that brags about what he can do but in reality its unlikely he could do 135 full reps

This **** bugs me sometimes. I'll be squatting 185-205 at or below parallel and some guy will come up and do 225-275 half squats. I probably couldn't even do half squats @ 275 but that's not the point

Is there a calculator somewhere that will convert below parallel squat weights to half and quarter squat weights?

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